The United Nations said Wednesday that global internet use was slowly increasing, but warned that glaring disparities in poorer regions especially meant a third of the world鈥檚 population remained offline.
Experts on Wednesday said that internet should be incorporated into Bangladesh鈥檚 constitution as a fundamental right to protect the countrymen鈥檚 freedom and ensure data security...
IN THE days before the Internet, social media, artificial intelligence, and polarised TV hosts, rumours spread the traditional way, passed from one person to another and neighbour to ighbor. A classic example of this phenomenon can be found in the Bengali poem Pandosram by Shamsur Rahman, where people frantically chase after an eagle, believing...
The US will urge a judge to make Google-parent company Alphabet sell its widely used Chrome browser in a major antitrust crackdown on the internet giant, according to a media report Monday...
Experts on Monday opined that mobile internet pricing should be regulated so that more people could use it and more foreign tech companies, such as Google and Facebook, established offices in Bangladesh...
Industry stakeholders on Sunday said that lack of regulatory fairness in Bangladesh鈥檚 internet sector was driving up costs for consumers and widening disparities in service access across the country...
Voices for Interactive Choice and Empowerment, a non-governmental organisation, organised a discussion titled Internet Shutdown and Private Sector Business at the...
Pakistan鈥檚 capital was locked down on Saturday, swarmed by security forces with mobile internet cut as supporters of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan attempted to seize the streets in protest...
The Bangladesh Mobile Phone Consumers Association (BMPCA) has called on the interim government to unveil a roadmap for reforms in the telecommunication and internet service sectors, aiming to improve service quality and address customer concerns...
Pakistan鈥檚 government is throttling the internet and social media while it tests new controls to crush dissent, activists and business leaders say, putting the country鈥檚...
Bangladesh has slightly progressed in terms of mobile internet speed, according to Ookla鈥檚 Speedtest Global Index for June.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission chair Md Mohiuddin Ahmed directed the internet shutdown during the recent protests, following verbal instructions from former state minister for posts, telecommunication, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak...
After nearly 27 hours of shutdown mobile internet network was restored and social media platforms were accessible about 3:00pm on Monday, following the...
Mobile internet services and social media platforms were shut down in Bangladesh again on Sunday amid the ongoing countrywide student protests pressing for...
Mobile internet users across Bangladesh said on Friday that they could not access social media platforms Facebook and Telegram for seven hours between 12.00pm and...
Banks need to have a separate internet service line dedicated solely to financial institutions to continue their operations and prevent losses from incidents like the recent nationwide internet shutdown...
Amid the ongoing crisis, entrepreneurs in the e-commerce sector have sought government assistance to recover from the extensive damage caused by the disruption of internet services and other issues...
The country鈥檚 business leaders on Sunday demanded low-cost bank loans, rescheduling facilities, deferred payment of loan instalments and waiver of port demurrage due to the suspension of business activities caused by the nationwide shutdown, curfew, general holidays and internet outage centring the quota reform movement...
The government restored mobile internet services at about 3:00pm on Sunday after almost 10 days, but users found difficulties in using the internet services...
Mobile internet services will be restored from 3:00pm on Sunday, said state minister of ministry of posts, telecommunications, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Sunday...
Cloudflare Radar in its internet outage report said that the recent internet blackout in Bangladesh was directed by the government...
State minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Saturday that a meeting on the restoration of mobile internet 4G services would be held with mobile operators on Sunday.
Internet users have continued to report ongoing internet problems, even though the government restored broadband connections on Wednesday.
Internet users from several areas in Dhaka city on Thursday have reported that they are facing disruptions while using said internet services, despite the government restoring the broadband internet connection on Wednesday...
Maximum efforts are being made to restore internet services, state minister for posts, telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmad Palak said on Monday...
People have been suffering from a severe cash money shortage amid a countrywide curfew, general holidays and an internet blackout in the country for the past few days...
The Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday asked banks and non-bank financial institutions to waive fines on late payment of instalments of loans, savings schemes like deposit pension scheme and credit card bills, considering general holidays and an internet blackout amid the countrywide unrests centring quota reform protests...
People鈥檚 sufferings exacerbated as the shutdown of internet continued on Sunday amid the countrywide protests and demonstrations against the killing of students amid the movement for quota reform in government jobs...
The area-based and, on a priority basis partly reinstated broadband internet connections in the Capital Dhaka and Chattogram were extended by a small portion on Wednesday, following a complete internet blackout for five straight days, amid the countrywide violence over student protest against quota in government job...
Thirty lawyers condemned the 鈥榰se of excessive and disproportionate force鈥� on the student protesters demanding quota reforms in government jobs in a statement issued on Sunday...